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Minus 1 and Plus 1

 *Minus 1 and Plus 1*

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

As you wake up in the morning (everyday), a caller called on your name to remind you of two vital informations: (a) that your days on this earth 🌎 is reduced by one *(Minus 1)* and (b) that you are closer to your grave by one day *(Plus 1)*. This why Hassan al-Basri said:

“The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.” 📚 (Hassan al-Basri)

My people!

Life is like an hourglass. Yes. Since birth, a person’s life of hourglass starts to run down toward the empty part, reducing the grains of life gradually.

What's hourglass?

Hourglass is a glass container filled with sand that takes one hour to move from an upper to a lower part through a narrow opening in the middle, used especially in the past to measure time.

Servants of Allah!

The sands of time in our hourglass keep running out *on daily basis* until the last grain in the hourglass slides down from the narrow neck of the hourglass.

*Question:*

How many Sand(s) do you have left in your hourglass?

*Answer:*

Only Allah (swt) knows the remaining grains of sand in everyone’s hourglass.

Servants of Allah!

I'm always worried each time I remember hadeeth narrated by Abu Hurayra (Ra) that, our beloved Prophet (pbuh) said: *“Indeed the first deed by which a servant will be called to account on the Day of Resurrection is his Swalat. If it is complete, he or she is successful and saved, but if it is defective, he or she has failed and lost. So, if something is deficient in his or her obligatory (prayers) then Allah (swt) will say: ‘Look! Are there any voluntary (prayers) for my worshipper?’ So, with them, what was deficient in his or her obligatory (prayers) will be completed.....”* 📚(Tirmizi).

My people!

None of our obligatory Swalawat is FREE of distractions from the same shaytan who whisper to people that, it is not compulsory to be engaging oneself in establishing voluntary prayers, especially Tahajjud.

*Question:*

Why more preference to Tahajjud?

*Answer:*

We have learned that, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: *“The best prayer after the obligatory prayers is the night prayer.”* 📚(Muslim)

My people!

Would you not desire to have your name documented *EVERYDAY* by Angels who document the names of people who wake up for midnight prayer?

Therefore,

If u have not yet set ur phone alarm in a repeating mode, to wake u up for midnight nawafil (at least 2 rakaats) everyday till the end of ur life, pls do so immediately. Yes. And waking up everyday for Tahajjud is not something difficult.. Let assume you wake up by 2AM, use 3minutes to perform ablution, 2minutes to get dressed, 5minutes to establish ONLY 2rakaat nawafil, 5minutes to make Du'a to Allah.. Total time spent = 15minutes. *Everything In 15minutes,* then, go back to catch up with sleep.

Allah alone knows best


سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك نشهد ان لا اله الا انت نستغفرك ونتوابوااليك

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